[While stuffing cheese sticks into her mouth, she kept murmuring "cheese stick, cheese stick," and while stuffing in dolls, she even murmured the dolls' names. It's so incredibly cute!]
[Hahaha, yes, after stuffing in the cheese sticks, he kept wondering if it was enough, and then he stuffed a few more cheese sticks into the corner of the suitcase, hahaha]
[I was wondering before, with so many cheese sticks and toys stuffed inside, wasn't she afraid they'd be confiscated? Was she going to try and sneak a few more? Well, now she doesn't need to hide them anymore; she can play and eat them openly!]
Director Jiang said, "This season, you don't need to pay for your accommodation; the production team has already paid for it in advance. You also don't need to prepare dinner tonight; the villagers you're staying with will provide it..."
Upon hearing this, all the guests breathed a sigh of relief and showed relaxed expressions.
This season doesn't sound as tiring or as frustrating as the last one.
"However," Director Jiang changed the subject, "you will need to find the farmers you want to stay with yourself based on the clues provided by our program team."
As Director Jiang spoke, he waved the back of the card in his hand at everyone.
Several guests immediately had a bad feeling.
Each group of guests sent their own child to draw a card.
They all assumed that since the job posting was for finding a house, the card would have a picture of a house on it.
To everyone's surprise, each group of guests received a card with one or two characters written on it, and the characters were even marked in pinyin.
"A rope?" Xu Miaotong read aloud from the card in Gao Hao's hand. "What does this mean? What does it have to do with the house we're looking for?"
"None?" Zhuo Ranjun took the card Ge Ling had drawn, looking completely bewildered. "What does 'none' mean?"
"Peach..." Feng Wenhe pondered, staring at the card. "Could it be that there are peaches in the house we're going to stay in?"
Inspired by Feng Wenhe's words, Ye Rui said to Guo Zhuyan, "The word 'bamboo' on our cards... could it mean there's bamboo around the house?"
Chi Naozi looked at the card she had drawn and read it aloud, "Water... Sister Qin, am I reading it correctly?"
Qin Yuanyao smiled and said, "Yes."
Chi Nai was so happy to receive the praise that her little face lit up with joy.
"Water?" Ye Rui looked at Qin Yuanyao. "Does that mean there's water, a river, or a stream around your house?"
Qin Yuanyao shook her head. "I don't know."
"Does this 'nothingness' mean that there's nothing inside our house, or that there's nothing around the house?" Zhuo Ranjun was completely puzzled.
Xu Miaotong and Gao Li were even more confused about what the word "rope" on their cards meant.
It's impossible that there are many ropes inside or around the house, right?
Director Jiang smiled and looked at the guests, who were all looking increasingly bewildered. "You'll find out what the hints on the cards mean once you walk around the village and look for them."
The guests were speechless.
They certainly knew that they could find out by looking.
But on this sweltering day, they'd rather stand still than walk a few more steps under the blazing sun.
They definitely wanted to find their place to stay by taking the least amount of walking.
However, the discussion here yielded no results, so the guests each pushed their own luggage and began searching in the village.
Fortunately, Wangshui Village is concentrated in this area and is not particularly scattered, so they do not need to travel around.
Wangshui Village is quite large; it takes more than half an hour to walk through the entire village. They were also pushing suitcases, which made walking even slower and more inconvenient.
Feng Wenhe and his group were the first to find a place to stay.
There were several peach trees in front of the house they were looking for. After asking the owner of the house, they confirmed that this was the place they wanted to stay.
The second family to find a place to stay was Guo Zhuyan's family.
Inspired by Feng Wenhe and his colleagues, Guo Zhuyan and Ye Rui have been looking for farmers who have planted bamboo in front of their houses.
However, after walking through the entire Wangshui Village, they did not see any houses with bamboo in front of them.
Just when they were at their wits' end, Ye Rui discovered a small bamboo grove behind a farmhouse.
When they went over and asked, it turned out to be the house they were looking for.
The third to find a place to stay were Qin Yuanyao, Chi Baiyi, and Chi Naozhi.
Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi had always thought that the house they were looking for might be near a river or stream.
However, after asking several farmers who met this criterion, none of them had the house they were looking for.
Until Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi noticed an abandoned water vat in front of a farmhouse, which was half full of rainwater.
Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi exchanged a glance, and Qin Yuanyao went up to ask the old man who was dozing off under the eaves.
"Hello, ma'am," Qin Yuanyao said gently.
The old man was startled awake from his nap and looked at her somewhat blankly.
"We're here in the village to film a TV show. Could you let us stay here for a few nights?"
The old man suddenly realized, and stood up somewhat shakily. "Yes, it is. Are you... are you called cheese?"
Chi Cheese stepped forward and said crisply, "Grandpa, I am cheese."
The old man smiled broadly when he saw such a fair and lovely porcelain doll in front of him.
"You are cheese!" The old man had very few teeth left, so his speech was slurred and somewhat unclear.
However, whether it was Chi Nao, Qin Yuanyao, or Chi Baiyi, they all listened patiently, without any impatience or urging on their faces.
"You're so cute. I have houses for you to stay in; the production team asked me to prepare two rooms. But the houses are very simple, so please don't mind."
"It's alright," Qin Yuanyao said with a smile.
They followed the old man inside.
Chi Cheese looked left and right and found that there was no one else in the house except for the old man.
She asked, "Grandpa, do you live alone?"
"Yes!" The old man walked slowly. "My wife passed away a year ago. My son and daughter are all in other places, and my grandchildren are also studying in other places. They come back to visit me occasionally, but most of the time, I am all alone."
The old man led Qin Yuanyao and the others to their room.
The two rooms faced each other. Although the rooms were simple, they were kept fairly tidy.
[Sobbing, seeing the old man reminds me of my own grandpa. Ever since I went to study in another city, I can only come home to see him once every six months.]
My grandfather also passed away a year ago. Every time I went back home before, he would secretly slip me some pocket money. It wasn't much, just a few dozen yuan, but it was all money he earned from selling vegetables. He didn't want to spend it himself; he saved it all for me.
I really envy you guys for having such wonderful grandfathers. My grandfather is different; because I'm a girl, he didn't like me when I was little, so I don't have much affection for him.
[A hug to the person upstairs. Not all elderly people are good people. Don't worry too much about it, and don't force it.]
(End of this chapter)
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